“It’s the best playground — we come here every day in the summer,” said Alison Don-Michael, 38, on a recent warm afternoon, as her 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter ran about the busy area.

The playground, designed by famed architect David Rockwell, encourages interactive play with moveable foam pieces and water-spouting hoses. As an added benefit, the pools and fountains in the park are also surrounded by a stepped wooden deck, with umbrellas, for kids and parents to lounge.

“Sprinklers, I love the sprinklers,” said Don-Michael’s son, as he zoomed by his mother. “It’s fun.”

Places to climb, run and splash in sprinklers await youngsters at West Thames Park on the eastern edge of Battery Park City.

“It’s great here — safe, clean and he’s loving the water,” said Chris Galati, as his 3-year-old son Dylan let himself get soaked by one of the park’s sprinklers. “We’re new to the neighborhood, but I think we’ll keep coming back.”

The playground, which sits along West Street, also keeps kids busy with tire swings and a large jungle gym.

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